ShellBrowser Components .NET Edition

ShellBrowser Components .NET Edition v5.3

Native Explorer Shell Controls for .NET

Enhance Your .NET Application with Explorer Functions

The ShellBrowser .NET Edition is a set of UI controls that look and behave exactly like the Windows Explorer. In short: You can use them to integrate explorer components in your applications or even build your own explorer.

 

ShellListView and ShellTreeView are Visual Studio controls. All ShellBrowser controls are C# components and can be used in all Visual Studio languages (C#, VB.NET, and C++).

The Visual Studio components imitate the corresponding parts of the Windows Explorer, including correct icons with overlays, the Explorer context menu, thumbnails, details, virtual folders and shell extensions. All components offer full .NET drag and drop support.

The ShellChangeNotifier informs you about relevant shell operations. The ShellFilePreview enables users of your app to see the content of files without opening them.

Beyond the normal Explorer look-and-feel, these controls support file filters, checkboxes and allow the customization of many aspects of their appearance and behavior.

The invisible ShellControlConnector control enables you to synchronize multiple shell controls without a line of code. An additional thumbnail component displays previews of the selected files in any size. Interestingsample projects and a detailed help file are included.

The ShellBrowser .NET Edition is royalty free and involves no runtime fees. Download our Visual Studio components today!

The ShellBrowser .NET Edition is also available as native VCL version for Borland Delphiand C++ Builderversion.

Enhance Your .NET Application with Drop-in Shell Functionality

Includes 13 Visual Studio and Non-Visual controls.

Create Explorer clones within minutes with the ShellTreeView, the ShellListView, and theShellControlConnector.

Easy drop-in: Simply drop the UI components right on your own forms or dialogs.

All captions, e.g. the column headers in the ShellListView, are from the system in the active language.

Use checkboxes with ShellTreeView and ShellListView.

Icons and thumbnails are determined in background threads. This optimizes the reactivity and does not slow down the speed of the user interface.

Integrate the preview pane introduced with the Windows Explorer with the ShellFilePreviewcomponent and let the ShellChangeNotifier inform you about relevant shell events.

Look-and-Feel of the Windows Explorer

Windows Shell context menu.

Drag-and-drop with the Windows Explorer and similar applications.

Different view styles: The ShellListView supports small icons, large icons, list, details and thumbnails.

Overlay icons are supported.

Installed Shell extensions supported by the Windows Explorer are also supported by the ShellBrowser .NET Edition

Background context menu in the ShellListView is supported.

How-to Guides

Comprehensive Documentation of the controls.

Sample Projects for basic and advanced features of ShellBrowser .NET Edition included.

100% C# Code - transparent costs

The components are based on the .NET Framework Controls and are written in 100% C# code; no additional DLLs or ActiveX controls are necessary.

The ShellBrowser .NET Edition is royalty free and involves no runtime fees.

Supports Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012.